sheepers 1976 RA28 celica

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new page, new happenings.
mainly this.
 
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many thanks to Dan (ta63-1uzze) for the dummy engine. with it i have been able to see that the manifold i made actually fits the motor and also that i should be able to get the whole shebang under the bonnet. 
 
using science (taping a crown horn button to the front of the motor and closing the bonnet) i have calculated that i should have about 10mm gap between the bonnet and the pulley. pretty happy about this.
 
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other things that have come to light,
i should be able to get the pulley forward enough by making a new one with a slightly different offset. i had previously thought that id have to make a new snout but a pulley should do the trick to get the belt drives to line up.
gotta make an adaptor plate to bolt the superdupercharger to the manifold. I've done most of the work for this so that shouldn't take to long.
 
excitement!!!!!

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heres some more of it bolted to the superdupercharger.

 

 

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fuel rails arrived.

need to mod the manifold a tiny bit and they should fit.

 

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bump sticks and new springs!

 

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head set, water pump, cam belt and tensioners. all genuine toyota thanks to Mark at Manawtu Toyota.

i need to figure out what coils I'm going to use then i can make some mounting brackets for them. i need to make a few more bits but i might get excited and take the motor out soon.

 

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got the adaptor plate made. a mate of mine made it for me at his shop because we are so busy at work at the moment that i can't get on a machine to make anything.

 

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only small problem is that some idiot modeled it with  the superdupercharger flange upside down so its wrong.

it fits the superdupercharger and it fits the manifold but not at the same time.

 

idiot.

now i have to ask my mate to make me another one because I'm a moran. 

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got new adaptor plate and this time it fits both the manifold and the superdupercharger at the same time.

 

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so there you have it. all the mechanical parts are made and I've bought almost everything i need to do the conversion, just need a new clutch and to get my gearbox fixed when its out of the car.

but, the end of the year is coming at me like fat woman approaches the buffet so i gotta get the other car done. this means this will be on hold until i get the TA23 a whole bunch further along.

i dunno, January? 

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so a while ago i said i was going to buy these flares,

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/JDM-set-for-TOYOTA-CELICA-TA22-TA23-Fender-Flares-Wheel-arch-front-lip-spoiler-/152131201793?hash=item236bb9eb01:g:ZnoAAOSwAuNW358r&vxp=mtr

 

which i did and they arrived ages ago but ive not really mocked them up yet to see how they fit. last night i did a bit of dicking around with them to see how they look.

they fit very well and im super happy with the construction of them. they are pretty wide though. i stuck them on the side of the 28 to see if they would fit a liftback and they will fit perfectly.

these flares aren't intended for this car and neither are these wheels but it was easier to show them on this car.

anywho, back. this is a 17x10 with a neg 40 offset (wheel is neg 20 and there is a 20mm spacer on there, hub face to hub face on this car is 1340 or whatever the stock celice diff width is, i think its 1340?)

 

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this is a 315 35 17 sitting in the hole. there is about 50mm gap on the inside and the cars guard lip is sitting on top of the tyre.

 

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front. 17x9.5 pos 12. very close to the strut on the inside but it could be made to work with a 5mm spacer and youd probably get away with a 245 40 17 tyre.

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so yea. i hope this information is of some use to you.

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hi.

so 8 years after i bought a supercharger and 5 years after i made a manifold for it im actually going to install it.

old people like me will tell you about how times speeds up and you just dont know where the time went but this is fucking ridiculous.

 

how the fuck has it been 5 years since i made that manifold? 

how?

 

anywho.

i took the motor out.

its fairly depressing to look at the engine bay that i once spent so much time and effort on and see what a pile of crap it looks like now. 

still, me, and a few other people too, have done a bunch of Ks in this car. ive dailyed it for almost 8 years, driven it to invercargil and back, been to heaps of nats in it, leadfoots, Toyota nationals, thrashed it at countless track days, done 70,000Ks in it.

and its NEVER missed a beat. not fucking once has it ever let me down ( you could count the time i blew the gearbox up but any idiot who puts a W55 behind a UZ deserves all he gets). cant complain about that i suppose.

 

so now its time for a new look, a new motor and a new other things as well.

first point of business, motor out,

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as it now takes me 27 years to scratch my arse i doubt the progress i used to make on projects is going to be a thing again. 

so dont expect me to have this thing finished by monday as i would have done in the old days. 

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engine tear down didnt go especially well.

everything was kind of normal looking without any thing sticking out as being fucked.

until i got the heads off.

there's some pretty major pitting in two of the bores. i can feel it and it seems pretty bad to me. there is one on the other side which is the same, maybe not so bad.

that line down by the piston is also degradation of the bore, dont know how far past the piston it goes yet.

 

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it could potentially be bored but it fells pretty bad.

 

if you've got a serviceable UZ block hit me up.......

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hey just a cautionary tail for those of you out there with a bad lower back.

DO NOT undo head bolts with a long power bar. the twisting action required to break the bolts has fucked me back to the stone age. its like ive undone 5 months or recovery in the space of an hour. FUCK im in pain now. 

don't do what Donny don't does......

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So, a month later and not much has happened. 

Took the heads to the reconditioners. 

Will sort out a new clutch then I can take the short block in for a reco as well. 

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Pistons out of the block.

Bores should clean up with a hone but we'll see and the crank looks like it just needs a polish. 

New eagle rods and Ross pistons to go back in. 

 

 

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2 months later i have all the bits to rebuild the bottom end. the heads are already finished and i have them back.

parts,

9 to 1 CR Ross forged pistons (the cunts will not change the value of the parts on the shipping invoice so keep that in mind when deciding to use them or not)

eagle H beam rods and ARP rod bolts

ARP main cap studs and bolts

new genuine Toyota oil pump

 

theres heaps of other shit too but you get the picture.

block will now be bored and honed to 88mm. rotating assembly will get balanced and ill get the short block back. 

then its reassembly time.

good days.

 

or maybe not good days. going in to hospital to get back surgery in about a month so that will fuck all progress for a while...............

 

 

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short block is finished and back home. now its time to start the assembly. need to check a few things like valve/piston clearance and whatnot.

i go in to hospital for back surgery on the 24th and id like to get the engine sealed us before then. 

 

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putting motor back together.

sump is all back on. the sump had some ground based accidents previously so i made a thing to stop it getting such a kicking.

 

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then i continued on with the rest of the assembly.

i put some playdoh on the piston and checked valve clearance which was all good.

got the water and oil pumps on and the heads.

the toyota full gasket set does not have lip seals in it which sucks balls so i have no front crank seal, which menas i cant put the timing belt on.

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